Noah's ark found ?!?

Good.You know, when I was 20, I actually thought this might be true. Back in 1994. People gave me all sorts of circumstantial details about how last year a dedicated team of archaeologist had found the Ark and how next year the people who found the Ark would come back with actual evidence.But the thing is that this idea has hung about the evangelical community for year after year. We're always just about to learn that there is real solid evidence for the Ark. It has been ... kind of ... discovered ... and they're going to produce the real actual proof ... next year.And the first news source that you cite has this to say: "There have been several reported discoveries of the remains of Noah's Ark over the years, most notably a find by archaeologist Ron Wyatt in 1987."When I was 13.Now I just want to shout: "Show us the frickin' Ark!" Well, if someone actually found some structure that they could verify really was Noah's Ark, then the implications would be huge.But I'm not holding my breath.---The survival of the Ark is not even implied by scripture. If you believe the Bible, it was a structure built out of wood, made four thousand years ago, and designed to last for about a year, and then lodged on a mountain, rather than, for example, in a peat-bog. Even if every word of the Book of Genesis was true, I wouldn't expect a 4000-year old wooden artifact to survive in those conditions. Yet curiously enough, people keep on discovering it. Well ... kinda discovering it. But not really discovering it.

Um ... Josephus is not particularly a "historical reference" for times two thousand years before he was born. He wasn't there, and he didn't check his facts much.IIRC, Josephus is the source for the idea that the Jews during their sojourn in Egypt built the Pyramids, which is so wrong historically. A lot of Christians believe this like it was written in the Bible, but it really isn't.

I just found a book published in 1975 saying that the Ark had been located using photographs from Skylab.Since then the discovery of the Ark seems to have become an annual event. The mountains of Ararat must be positively littered with enormous gopherwood boats.